US Patent Issued to NXP on July 14 for "Radar system with overlapping virtual antennas for out-of-field-of-view detection and multipath detection" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,172, issued on July 14, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Radar system with overlapping virtual antennas for out-of-field-of-view detection and multipath detection" was invented by Ryan Haoyun Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Baokun Liu (Novi, Mich.) and Feike Guus Janser (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MIMO radar apparatus includes M simultaneously transmitting radar transmitters, N radar receivers, and control circuitry coupled thereto. Positions of the M transmitters and N receivers define MxN virtual transceiver positions; at least one virtual transceiver position coincides with another. The contr...